KDE's KWin Loses Window Tiling Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: KDE's KWin Loses Window Tiling Support

KDE just lost support for tiling windows with the feature being removed from the KWin window manager code-base...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTEzOTY

[TobiSGD]

Never heard of anyone using that. If I want tiling I use a tiling WM.

[entropy]

Never heard of anyone using that. If I want tiling I use a tiling WM.

Indeed.

I'm using 'awesome WM' for quite some time; and it really is.

[Awesomeness]

Never heard of anyone using that. If I want tiling I use a tiling WM.

And what if one wants tiling, compositing, and tabbing? I'm not aware of another WM that does it all.

[curaga]

And what if one wants tiling, compositing, and tabbing? I'm not aware of another WM that does it all.

And now Kwin doesn't do that either

[liam]

Phoronix: KDE's KWin Loses Window Tiling Support

KDE just lost support for tiling windows with the feature being removed from the KWin window manager code-base...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTEzOTY

Don't worry abandoned KDE users, Gnome's Mutter, via an extension, does tiling.
Come to Gnome, we have tiling!

[curaga]

Don't worry abandoned KDE users, Gnome's Mutter, via an extension, does tiling.
Come to Gnome, we have tiling!

Why did I think of the "free candy van" when I read that

[RussianNeuroMancer]

Don't worry abandoned KDE users, Gnome's Mutter, via an extension, does tiling.
Come to Gnome, we have tiling!

"Developers plan to provide window tiling support for the KDE desktop through a KWin script"

[liam]

Why did I think of the "free candy van" when I read that

....hmm... that's supposed to be a non-creepy smile...

[Alex Sarmiento]

Most people who just surf the web, this is not an issue. For people who do actually work, with several windows and workspaces, this might be a problem.